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UNIBAS is a Public University born 1980 and includes scientific and teaching experiences of professors, researchers and scholars. UNIBAS promotes and participates in systematic initiatives to connect the research with productive world, external institutional, professional and entrepreneurial subjects.
UNIBAS is equipped with many research laboratories, with advanced instrumentation and facilities, useful to support innovative research activities, as well as technology transfer processes. UNIBAS partner has been working with several technologies (e.g., adsorption, ultrafiltration, reverse osmosis, heterogeneous/homogeneous photo-catalysis, and various nanostructured materials of modified natural origin) and their main areas of expertise are emerging contaminants, environmental and health risks assessment and wastewater treatment and reuse, analytical chemistry, agronomy, entomology and interactions between aboveground and belowground organisms.
UNIBAS is directly involved in WP6, ensuring a high standard supervision, quality control and overall coordination of the scientific team and setting up a framework for communication, exchange of information among partners. UNIBAS participates in other WPs as follows:
- to treat wastewater by the potentiality of natural material acting as adsorbed for filtration treatment of contaminants at different operational conditions,
- to determinate and to quantify the contaminants in soil, to monitor the antioxidant activity and their secondary metabolites in wastewater and to evaluate of effects on soil organisms of water reuse
- to evaluate the effects of wastewater irrigation on Trichoderma activity in terms of promoting plant growth and inducing resistance against pathogens and insects
- to provide the experimental field based on evaluation crop yield based on two seasons of tomatoes and four seasons of lettuce
- to analyse the effects of the new practices in terms both of economic results of the farms and of cost/benefits in a collective perspective.
Key personnel involved
Monica Brienza
(Scientific Coordinator)
Monica Brienza is a fixed-term researcher at University of Basilicata (Potenza, Italy). She holds a B.S. and M.Sc. degree in Forestry and Environmental Sciences from the University of Basilicata. She conducted her Ph.D. in co-tutel at the Université de Perpignan via Domitia (France) in Solar-driven Advanced Oxidation Processes. She was a Marie Curie postdoc fellow at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Greece) and conducted a second postdoc at the University of Montpellier (France). More recently, she is conducting a Fulbright postdoc at ASU. Her research investigates environmental contaminants with respect to (i) their fate on environment, and (ii) their sustainable removal in decentralized settings, (iii) risk assessment (total citations: 487, h-index: 12).
Filomena Lelario
Filomena Lelario is Associate Professor in Agricultural Chemistry at the Department of Sciences of University of Basilicata (Italy). Her research activity mainly concerns the development of new analytical methodologies based on the use of gas and liquid chromatography and low and high-resolution mass spectrometry for the determination of natural substances and xenobiotics in vegetable, biological, and environmental samples (total citations: 1051, h-index: 18).
Donatella Battaglia
Donatella Battaglia is Assistant Professor in Entomoly and Zoology at the Department of Sciences of University of Basilicata (Italy). Her research activity concerns interactions between aboveground and belowground organisms, biological control, insect behaviour and tritrophic interactions (total citations: 541, h-index: 10).
Adele Coppola
Adele Coppola is Assistant Professor, with experience in cost-benefit analysis, policies evaluation, and farm performance assessment (total citations: 836, h-index: 12).
Mauro Viccaro
Mauro Viccaro is associate professor of Rural Economics and Appraisal at the University of Basilicata (Italy), currently lecturing “Agri-food economics and policy” and “Agri-food marketing”. He received a PhD degree in Agricultural, Forest and Food Sciences and Technology (University of Basilicata) in 2017, with a PhD project on Social Accounting Matrices as tools for rural regions development. He is member of different agricultural economics scientific associations, member of editorial board of Aestimum journal, and referee for different national and international journals. He published several papers on Italian and international peer-review journals. His scientific activity in the field of Agricultural Economics focuses on the sustainability of food systems, innovative agri-food supply chains, consumer behaviours, and the cost-effectiveness of innovative solutions in the agri-food sector, especially to promote waste reduction and bioenergy promotion.
Laura Scrano
Laura Scrano is Associate Professor of Soil Chemistry at the Department of European Cultures and Mediterranean of University of Basilicata (Italy). Her research activity concerns study of the degradation and transformation pathways of modern pesticides in the liquid phase and in the adsorbed phase, treatment of wastewater with nano-structured hybrids and study of the effects of crude oil contamination in soil (total citations: 1792, h-index: 25).
Luigi Milella
Luigi Milella is Professor in Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Botany and Pharmacognosy at the Department of Sciences of University of Basilicata (Italy). His research activity mainly concerns in biological analysis of antioxidant activity and inhibition of enzymes involved (total citations: 2799, h-index: 30).